GILLETTE — A bill that would have repealed gun-free zones in most of Wyoming passed the Legislature with strong support, but failed to become law following a veto last month
GILLETTE — A bill that would have repealed gun-free zones in most of Wyoming passed the Legislature with strong support, but failed to become law following a veto last month
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the federal health care worker coronavirus vaccine mandate to go through. A lower court had put the mandate on pause in late November. Now any employee, volunteer, or contractor working at health care facilities receiving Medicaid or Medicare funding have to be fully vaccinated or provide an exemption by Feb. 28. Leading Age and Wyoming Hospital Association President Eric Boley told Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska they expect to see staff shortages in hospitals and nursing homes border to border in the state.
Week 40: The pandemic in Wyoming from Dec. 12-18
The first COVID-19 vaccines in Natrona County are issued on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, at the Casper-Natrona County Health Department. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Wyoming healthcare providers this week administered the state’s first COVID-19 vaccines to frontline healthcare workers, offering a ray of hope in controlling the pandemic.
“We have an end in sight at this point, which was not true for many months during this pandemic,” State Health Officer Dr. Alexia Harrist said in a release announcing the first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which began arriving Monday. “We have hope and a reminder that this situation is for now and not forever.”